Installing MySQL 5.6 on CentOS 6.3 using YUM

The steps below outline how to install MySQL 5.6 on a fresh installation of CentOS 6.3

You'll need to be running as a root user.

For now, in order to avoid conflicts, you'll need to remove the default mysql-libs that come with CentOS and replace them with the ones from Oracle.

$ yum remove mysql-libs

Then, clean up the cache

$ yum clean dbcache

Next, you'll need to get the latest release from Oracle

$ wget http://dev.mysql.com/get/mysql-community-release-el6-5.noarch.rpm/from/http://repo.mysql.com/

Install the release

$ yum localinstall mysql-community-release-el6-*.noarch.rpm

Install the MySQL Community Server

$ yum install mysql-community-server

Start MySQL 5.6

$ service mysqld start

Set it up so that MySQL starts automatically on reboot:

$ chkconfig mysqld on
$ chkconfig --list mysqld